about Life

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

sometimes, when we look back at the lives we have lived thus far, we can see what a marvellous or complicated piece of work it is.. the decisions and choices that we made, the friends and acquaintances who walked through our lives at various points, the books that we read, the schools that we attended, the jobs that we took, the cars that we drove, the laughter, the pain, the sorrow, the love... Life indeed must be lived, and savoured, and experienced in the present, not in retrospect.

other wonderful LIFE quotes:

No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along,
or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.
The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.
It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives,
and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them
we may forget altogether to live them.

Alan Watts
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticism and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty and find the best in others; to leave this world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A tree has both straight and crooked branches; the symmetry of the tree, however, is perfect. Life is balanced like a tree. When you consider the struggles, difficulties, and sorrows as a part of it, then you see it as beautiful and perfect.

George M. Lamsa
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It is not death that we should fear, but we should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Helen Keller
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Life is beautiful to whomsoever will think beautiful thoughts. There are no common people but they who think commonly and without imagination or beauty. Such are dull enough.

Stanton Davis Kirkham
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Montaigne
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell
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Be not afraid of life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James
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Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery and Today is a gift:
that's why we call it - "The Present".

CEO of Coca Cola